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Saturday, 30 April 2005
JAILED TAJIK OPPOSITION LEADER ABDUCTED, LAWYERS SAY
By empty (4/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azam Badriddinov and Shirinmoh Ibronova, the lawyers defending Muhammadruzi Iskandarov, the jailed head of Tajikistan\'s Democratic Party, held a news conference in Dushanbe on 30 April to share details of Iskandarov\'s recent disappearance in Russia and reappearance in custody in Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Badriddinov and Ibronova, who recently held their first meeting with Iskandarov in custody, said he was abducted in Moscow on 16 April by a group of unidentified men of Slavic appearance wearing Russian police uniforms. They held him overnight in a sauna before handing him over to another group the next day.
Azam Badriddinov and Shirinmoh Ibronova, the lawyers defending Muhammadruzi Iskandarov, the jailed head of Tajikistan\'s Democratic Party, held a news conference in Dushanbe on 30 April to share details of Iskandarov\'s recent disappearance in Russia and reappearance in custody in Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Badriddinov and Ibronova, who recently held their first meeting with Iskandarov in custody, said he was abducted in Moscow on 16 April by a group of unidentified men of Slavic appearance wearing Russian police uniforms. They held him overnight in a sauna before handing him over to another group the next day. The second group carried him alone on a plane to Dushanbe. Russian prosecutors had refused to honor an extradition request from their Tajik colleagues, and they released Iskandarov in early April. Iskandarov faces corruption and terrorism charges in Tajikistan. (RFE/RL)